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The average maturity for funds open only to institutions , considered by some * to be a stronger indicator because [_ARG0 those managers] [_rel watch] [_ARG1 the market] [_ARGM-MNR closely] , reached a high point for the year -- 33 days .
The U.S. , *-1 claiming some success in its trade diplomacy , removed South Korea , Taiwan and Saudi Arabia from a list of [_ARG1 countries] 0 [_ARG0 it] is [_ARGM-MNR closely] [_rel watching] *T*-2 [_ARGM-CAU for * allegedly failing *-3 to honor U.S. patents , copyrights and other intellectual-property rights] .
[_ARG1 Inventories] are [_ARGM-MNR closely] [_rel watched] *-1 [_ARGM-PNC for such clues] , [_ARGM-DIS for instance] .
[_ARG0 Characters] drink Salty Dogs , whistle `` Johnny B. Goode '' and [_rel watch] [_ARG1 Bugs Bunny reruns] .
*-1 Totally absorbed , [_ARG0 the ringers] stare straight ahead , *-1 using peripheral vision -LRB- they call it `` rope-sight '' -RRB- *-2 to [_rel watch] [_ARG1 the other ropes] and thus time their pulls .
[_ARG1 One indicator] 0 [_ARG0 investors] might want *-2 to [_rel watch] *T*-1 is the monthly tally from Standard & Poor 's of the number of public companies adjusting their dividends .
Index-arbitrage trading is `` [_ARG1 something] 0 [_ARG0 we] want *-1 to [_rel watch] *T*-1 [_ARGM-MNR closely] , '' an official at London 's Stock Exchange said 0 *T*-2 .
[_ARG0 Only 57.6 % of New Yorkers] [_rel watch] [_ARG1 the local news] , [_ARGM-ADV the lowest viewership in the country] , says 0 *T*-1 a new study by Impact Resources Inc. , Columbus , Ohio ... .
In between came lots of coffee drinking while [_ARG0 *] [_rel watching] [_ARG1 the balloons inflate] and lots of * standing around *-1 deciding who *T*-88 would fly in what balloon and in what order -LRB- the baskets hold no more than four passengers -RRB- .
After long stretches of this attendant ground activity came 20 or so lovely minutes of [_ARG0 *] drifting above the Vosges *-1 [_rel watching] [_ARG1 the silver mists rise off the river and the French cows amble about the fields] .
We finally rendezvoused with our balloon , which *T*-94 had come *-1 to rest on a dirt road amid a clutch of [_ARG0 Epinalers] who *T*-95 [_rel watched] [_ARG1 us disassemble our craft -- another half-an-hour of non-flight activity -- that *T*-96 included the precision routine of * yanking the balloon to the ground , punching all the air out of it , rolling it up and cramming it and the basket into the trailer] .
This meant * returning to [_ARGM-LOC the golf course] , where [_ARG0 we] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 a few French duffers maul the first tee while we sat under Cinzano umbrellas , me nursing an espresso and my ego] *T*-1 .
That may not come as a surprise to [_ARG0 Americans] who *T*-176 have [_rel watched] [_ARG1 the Japanese snap up properties in the U.S. from golf courses to a stake in Rockefeller Center] .
In either case , * ask yourself whether [_ARG0 you] have become better informed on the issues under protest by *-1 [_rel watching] [_ARG1 the act of civil disobedience] .
But [_ARG0 traders] who *T*-68 [_rel watch] [_ARG1 the stocks] warned 0 the rise may be yet another `` one-day phenomenon . ''
[_ARG1 IBM 's visits to the debt market] are [_ARGM-MNR closely] [_rel watched] *-1 by treasurers at other corporations and by [_ARG0-by credit market analysts] .
Three reasons *ICH*-4 were pinpointed *-5 : a preference for [_ARG0 *] [_rel watching] [_ARG1 bowling and other sports] [_ARGM-LOC on television] rather than actually bowling , dowdy bowling centers , and dissatisfaction with bowling itself .
The first three major areas of the service sector 0 *T*-2 to be revamped *-1 were expenditures by foreign students in the U.S. . -LRB- net after expenditures by Americans studying abroad -RRB- , some exports by professional firms -LRB- a law firm billing a German client for services rendered * in [_ARG0 *] [_rel watching] [_ARG1 legislation in Washington] is as much an export as shipment of an American jet engine -RRB- , and improved data from travel and tourism .
Although [_ARG0 Heathrow authorities] have been [_rel watching] [_ARG1 a group of allegedly crooked baggage handlers] [_ARGM-TMP for some time] , the Gauguin may be `` lost . ''
[_ARG1 Wednesday 's report from the purchasing agents] [_ARGM-MOD will] be [_rel watched] *-1 [_ARGM-PNC * to see if the index maintains a level below 50 % , as it has *?* for the past couple of months] .
But Mr. Wyss said 0 [_ARG0 he] [_ARGM-MOD will] [_rel watch] [_ARG1 the numbers] [_ARGM-PNC *-1 to get an inkling of whether consumers ' general buying habits may slack off as much as their auto-buying apparently has *?*] .
[_ARG0 Traders] [_ARGM-MOD will] [_ARGM-DIS also] [_rel watch] for [_ARG1-for whether the Soviet Union continues its traditional fall buying of U.S. grain] .
John Bruner , associate director of communications for Cincinnati Public Schools , said 0 Channel One was rejected *-1 because [_ARG0 students] [_rel watching] [_ARG1 the program] did n't fare particularly better *ICH*-3 on a 28-question current events quiz than a control school without the program and school absences were almost unchanged during the period when the program was being aired *-2 *T*-4 .
[_ARGM-DIS Then] [_ARGM-ADV maybe] [_ARG0 I] [_ARGM-MOD could] stay home and have seven children and [_rel watch] [_ARG1 Oprah Winfrey] , [_ARGM-MNR like Beulah in the article] , [_ARGM-ADV instead of *-2 having one child and working constantly *-1 just to stay above water , like so many families in this country] .
[_ARGM-LOC In Brussels , which *T*-1 recently spent millions of dollars on a computer-assisted trading system] , [_ARG0 disgusted traders] [_rel watched] [_ARGM-MNR helplessly] [_ARG1 as a software failure before opening on Manic Monday prevented trading for two days] .
Your coaches demand a lot more out of you even though [_ARG0 some of them] are not willing *-1 to take the time 0 * to [_rel watch] [_ARG1 you] progress *T*-2 .
Mr. Engelken was doing the same across the Hudson River in New Jersey , where , [_ARGM-MNR with his nose pressed * against the front window of the Passaic-Clifton National Bank] , [_ARG0 he] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 the duel] [_ARGM-LOC on a television set 0 the bank set up *T*-1 for the event] *T*-2 .
[_ARG0 The Japanese] have [_rel watched] [_ARG1 the Europeans and Canadians stumble in the U.S. market] , and they fret that business practices that *T*-1 have won them huge profits at home wo n't translate into success in the U.S. .
The local government is discredited *-2 in the eyes of many residents for a variety of reasons , and [_ARG0 congressmen] read the same newspapers *RNR*-1 and [_rel watch] [_ARG1 the same TV newscasts *RNR*-1] as other people in the area do *?* .
SEC staffers soon determined that a [_ARGM-MNR widely] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 stock-market] service , Quotron , had miscalculated the industrial average .
[_ARG0 Fans of Anthony Andrews -LRB- `` Brideshead Revisited '' -RRB-] will relish *-1 [_rel watching] [_ARG1 him play the title role -LRB- s -RRB- in the 19th-century Robert Louis Stevenson pre-Freudian drama of schizoid horror] .
Worth [_ARG0 *] [_rel watching] , although the music has lasted better than the plot or the humor .
`` I 'd love it if my daughter had something else 0 * to do *T*-2 here , '' says *T*-1 [_ARG0 Ms. Cokely] , [_rel watching] [_ARG1 seven-year-old Kristin on the water slide at the Strip 's Wet 'n' Wild water park] .
[_ARG0 *] To [_rel watch] [_ARG1 your child die] is an inhuman experience . ''
Mr. Pilson emphasizes the ancillary benefits of positive press , contented affiliate stations , enthusiastic advertisers and [_ARG0 huge audiences] that *T*-1 might stick around *-2 to [_rel watch] [_ARG1 other CBS programs] [_ARGM-TMP when the game is over *T*-3] .
The effects on the market of the mostly computer-driven sell-off among exchange-listed stocks irked [_ARG0 many market makers] , who *T*-1 [_rel watched] [_ARG1 the Nasdaq Composite Index tumble in sympathy with the Dow Jones Industrial Average] , and then saw it get left *-2 behind in the subsequent rally .
But it is the Trinity Rep newcomer , Jonathan Fried -LRB- Zamislov , the paralegal -RRB- who *T*-1 is [_ARG1 the actor] 0 [_ARG0 *] to [_rel watch] *T*-2 , whether he is hamming it up while *-3 conducting the chamber musicians or seducing his neighbor 's wife -LRB- Becca Lish -RRB- by *-3 licking her bosom .
Mr. Kaiser said 0 traders could have picked up signals of an imminent price decline had [_ARG0 they] been [_rel watching] [_ARG1 the scrap metal markets , which *T*-1 became noticeably weaker two to three weeks ago] .
`` [_ARGM-ADV While the stock market was falling] , [_ARG0 most -LCB- junk bond holders -RCB-] were [_ARGM-ADV just] [_rel watching] [_ARG1 it] [_ARGM-ADV *-2 not knowing what *-3 to do *T*-1] , '' said *T*-4 Paul Suckow , director of fixed-income securities at Oppenheimer Management Corp .
`` It was like [_ARG0 *] driving down the highway *-1 [_rel watching] [_ARG1 a wreck] .
`` [_ARG0 The average American] [_rel watches] [_ARG1 seven hours of TV a day] .
[_ARG1 Such sales] are [_rel watched] *-1 [_ARGM-MNR closely] by [_ARG0-by platinum and palladium traders] [_ARGM-CAU because both metals are used *-2 in automobile catalytic converters] .
`` [_ARG0 Bond investors] have been [_rel watching] [_ARG1 stocks] [_ARGM-MNR closely] , '' said *T*-1 Joel Marver , chief fixed-income analyst at Technical Data Global Markets Group .
[_ARG1 The first two GAF trials] were [_rel watched] *-1 [_ARGM-MNR closely] [_ARGM-LOC on Wall Street] [_ARGM-CAU because they were considered *-2 to be important tests of the government 's ability * to convince a jury of allegations stemming from its insider-trading investigations] .
[_ARGM-DIS Otherwise] , [_ARG0 they] 'd be [_rel watching] [_ARG1 programs that *T*-1 are no different in quality from what they currently view *T*-2 on color TVs] .
It would be like `` [_ARG0 *] [_rel watching] [_ARG1 a black and white movie] [_ARGM-LOC on a color TV set] , '' says 0 *T*-1 Malcolm G. Saull , chairman of the film and video department at the Rochester Institute of Technology .
[_ARG0 Devotees] pass hours , *-1 [_rel watching] [_ARG1 the lights blink] and listening to the metal balls ping , *-1 as much *ICH*-3 to gamble as to get a little time 0 * to be anonymous , alone with their thoughts *T*-2 .
[_ARGM-LOC Up in his stadium box] , [_ARG0 their new and controversial owner , Jerral `` Jerry '' Jones ,] [_rel watches] [_ARGM-MNR anxiously] [_ARGM-TMP as the team bounds up to the scrimmage line] .
The bill gets signed *-3 into law and [_ARGM-DIS then] [_ARG0 the administration] [_rel watches] [_ARGM-MNR helplessly] , [_ARGM-ADV *-1 wondering where all the `` unexpected '' costs came from *T*-2] .
Interest may remain limited into [_ARG1 tomorrow 's U.K. trade figures] , which [_ARG0 the market] [_ARGM-MOD will] be [_rel watching] *T*-1 [_ARGM-MNR closely] [_ARGM-PNC *-2 to see if there is any improvement after disappointing numbers in the previous two months] .
CDs yielding 40 % are even more implausible -- especially when the issuing `` bank '' in the Marshall Islands is [_ARG1 merely a mail drop] [_rel watched] * over by [_ARG0-by a local gas-station operator] -- but investors fell for that one too .
[_ARG0 *] Stick some money in an interest-bearing account and [_rel watch] [_ARG1 it grow] .
Mr. Lawson also made it *EXP*-1 clear that [_ARG0 he] [_ARGM-MOD would] be [_rel watching] [_ARG1 exchange rates] [_ARGM-MNR carefully] .
[_ARGM-DIS Also] [_ARGM-MNR closely] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 *-1] is *T*-2 Exxon Corp. , where short interest slid to 4,469,167 shares from 5,088,774 *T*-3 .
After [_ARG0 *-1] [_rel watching] [_ARG1 interest in the sport plummet for years] , the ski industry is trying *-1 to give itself a lift .
TV reporters interviewed fans in the parking lots while , [_ARGM-LOC a few feet away] , [_ARG0 others] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 the interviews] [_ARGM-LOC on their portable TVs] .
The [_ARGM-MNR closely] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 funds] rate is what banks charge each other on overnight loans .
[_ARGM-CAU Why] [_ARGM-NEG not] [_rel watch] or hear [_ARG1 your experience historicized *-1] [_ARGM-TMP while you were living it] ?
Even still , I did feel self-indulgent , and I could n't help *-2 remembering my father 's contempt for [_ARG0 a rich medical colleague] who *T*-1 would go *-3 to [_rel watch] [_ARG1 the Tigers] [_ARGM-TMP on summer afternoons] .
`` It 's a Swiss-cheese factory and the cheese smells pretty good , '' commented *T*-2 [_ARG0 one veteran lobbyist] who *T*-1 was [_rel watching] [_ARG1 the proceedings] .
Since the 1987 crash , the industrials have soared more than 54 % , and the [_ARGM-EXT widely] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 market] barometer is about 4 % below its record high set * earlier this month .
[_ARG0 *-1] [_rel Watching] [_ARG1 Congress sweat and grimace through its annual budget labors , *-2 fighting the urge * to spend more] , we 're reminded of those late-night movies in which the anguished serial killer turns himself in to police and says , `` * Stop me before I kill again *T*-3 . ''
As the music swells , viewers discover 0 [_ARG0 they] 're [_rel watching] [_ARG1 a commercial for Lone Star Beer , the pride of Texas , a product of G. Heileman Brewing Co. , a La Crosse , Wis. , unit of Bond Corp] .
[_ARG0 *] [_rel WATCH] FOR [_ARG1-FOR EARNINGS DISAPPOINTMENTS] .
Cupboard doors were flying , the trash can in the kitchen walked a few feet , the dogs came running , and [_ARG0 I] scooted them into the dog run and stood in the doorway myself , *-1 [_rel watching] [_ARG1 the outside trash cans] dance across the concrete .
Worst part was [_rel watching] [_ARG1 power lines waving above my head] and no way 0 * to drive away *T*-1 .
Then as things got rougher , [_ARG0 we] ran for the door and spent the next few minutes outside *-1 [_rel watching] [_ARG1 the brick sidewalk under our feet oozing up and down , and the flowers waving in an eerie rhythm] .
[_ARGM-DIS But] [_ARG0 top management] [_ARGM-MOD should] [_rel watch] for [_ARG1-for other tell-tale signs of employee misdeeds , like expense-account fudging and phone misuse] .
The Galileo project started in 1977 , and [_ARG0 a number of project veterans] were on hand *-1 to [_rel watch] [_ARG1 the launch] .
Benny Chin , manager of the Galileo probe , compared it to [_ARG0 *] [_rel watching] [_ARG1 a child leave home] .
[_ARG0 Staffers at Thompson , whose offices *T*-1 are in the ultramodern Embarcadero Center ,] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 pictures drop from the walls] and then felt the skyscraper sway seven to eight feet , according to a spokeswoman .
[_ARG0 Mainstream economists and commentators] , *-3 craning their necks up at the great pyramids of junk financing , swiveling their heads *-2 to [_rel watch] [_ARG1 the avalanche of leveraged buy-outs] , claimed 0 the end result would be a leaner , meaner corporate America , with soaring productivity and profits and the weaker gone to the wall .
[_ARGM-ADV Despite heavily subsidized consumer industries] , [_ARG0 East Germans] have [_ARGM-TMP for years] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 the West pull farther out ahead] .
[_ARG1 The case] had been [_ARGM-MNR closely] [_rel watched] *-1 [_ARGM-CAU because attorneys anticipate increasing litigation nationally over the so-called sick-building syndrome] .
`` [_ARG0 Our customers] [_rel watch] [_ARG1 us] [_ARGM-PNC for the hidden message] , '' he said *T*-1 .
Gold , a [_ARGM-MNR closely] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 barometer] of investor anxiety , was little changed .
It already has allowed the [_ARGM-MNR closely] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 federal] funds rate to decline 1\/4 percentage point to about 8 3\/4 % from its previous target level of about 9 % .
`` [_ARG0 We] [_rel watch] [_ARG1 the same indicators] and listen to the same prognosticators .
[_ARG1 UAL] was [_rel watched] *-1 [_ARGM-MNR closely] and traded *-1 heavily .
[_ARG0 Couch-potato jocks] [_rel watching] [_ARG1 ABC 's `` Monday Night Football ''] can now vote during halftime for the greatest play in 20 years from among four or five filmed replays .
`` [_ARG0 Everyone in the world] is [_rel watching] [_ARG1 us] [_ARGM-MNR very closely] . ''
[_ARG0 Traders] [_ARGM-MNR nervously] [_rel watching] [_ARG1 their Quotron electronic-data machines] [_ARGM-TMP yesterday morning] were stunned *-1 to see the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummet 99 points in seconds .
`` [_ARG0 The eyes of the world] were [_rel watching] [_ARG1 us] .
Conversation was subdued as [_ARG0 most patrons] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 the latest market statistics] [_ARGM-LOC on television] .
Institutional investors and bankers , [_ARG0 many of whom] *T*-1 spent the night before in their offices *-2 [_rel watching] [_ARG1 Far Eastern markets] , were cautiously optimistic after the mild 1.8 % decline in Tokyo stock prices .
London 's Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-share index , the [_ARGM-MNR most closely] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 market] barometer , ended at its intraday high of 2163.4 , down 70.5 , or 3.2 % .
[_ARGM-ADV With program traders seemingly in charge] , [_ARG0 buyers] backed away from the market and [_rel watched] [_ARG1 stocks fall] .
Some traders said that the [_ARGM-MNR closely] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 Major] Market Index , whose 20 stocks *T*-1 mimic the Dow industrials , did n't lead yesterday 's big rally .
The [_ARGM-MNR closely] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 rate] on federal funds , or overnight loans between banks , slid to about 8 3\/4 % last week , down from its perceived target level of about 9 % .
He camped out at a high-tech nerve center on the floor of [_ARGM-LOC the Big Board] , where [_ARG0 he] [_ARGM-MOD could] [_rel watch] [_ARG1 updates on prices and pending stock orders] *T*-1 .
[_ARG0 The company] introduced a superconcentrated Lemon Cheer in Japan after *-1 [_rel watching] [_ARG1 the success of Attack] .
[_ARG0 Orange Juice Traders] [_ARGM-MOD will] be [_rel watching] [_ARGM-PNC *-2 to see how long and how far the price decline that *T*-1 began Friday will go *T*-3] .
Its watchers are , on the whole , [_ARG0 a disloyal group] of channel-zapping `` grazers '' and news junkies , who *T*-1 spend an average of just 26 minutes a day *-2 [_rel watching] [_ARG1 CNN] , according to audience research .
That 's [_ARGM-TMP less than one-third the time] that [_ARG0 viewers] [_rel watch] [_ARG1 the major broadcast networks] *T*-1 .
But 70 % of [_ARG0 the cable-television-equipped households] that *T*-1 [_rel watch] [_ARG1 news] do so between 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. , the network discovered 0 *T*-2 , so CNN wants in .
`` [_ARGM-ADV Given a choice] , [_ARG0 everybody] [_ARGM-MOD will] [_rel watch] [_ARG1 a home-produced show] . ''
As [_ARG0 I] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 him] [_ARGM-LOC on C-Span] , I heard 0 him speak those lovely words about the Bill of Rights , which he quotes *T*-1 from the transcript of the hearings .
`` I 'm not losing faith in the market , '' said *T*-1 Boston lawyer Christopher Sullivan as [_ARG0 he] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 the market plunge] [_ARGM-LOC on a big screen in front of a brokerage firm] .
[_ARG0 Traders] then spent the last half-hour * `` [_rel watching] [_ARGM-PNC * to see if the Dow would drop 250 points] , '' Mr. Dubnow added 0 *T*-2 , * referring to the level at which the stock market itself would have closed for an hour *T*-1 .
One observer estimated that [_ARG0 80 % to 90 % *U* of the S&P traders] `` were just standing around *-1 [_rel watching] . ''
[_ARGM-ADV *-1 Stunned] , [_ARG0 they] [_rel watched] [_ARG1 brokerage houses mark down price quotations on their junk holdings while * being able * to execute very few actual trades] .
[_ARG0 The government] is [_rel watching] [_ARGM-MNR closely] [_ARGM-PNC * to see if their presence in the townships leads to increased anti-government protests and violence] ; if it does , Pretoria will use this as a reason 0 * to keep Mr. Mandela behind bars *T*-1 .